Building projects

Ferens Art Gallery reopens to celebrate Hull’s City of Culture year

Rare&nbsp;Renaissance paintings, Francis Bacon’s “Screaming Popes” and the Turner Prize will go on show in the refurbished space<br>

Star Wars creator George Lucas picks Los Angeles over San Francisco to build $1bn museum

Filmmaker's personal collection will be on show, which includes works by Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth and Robert Crumb

Grand Palais closure means that Fiac, Paris Photo and La Biennale Paris must move out

Dealers hope relocation of fairs will not prove disruptive during historic venue’s refurbishment

Underground art: the public works that are part of New York’s $100bn infrastructure plan

At MoMA, governor Andrew Cuomo outlined the state’s projects, including pieces by Sarah Sze, Chuck Close and Vik Muniz

Tasmanian collector David Walsh unveils his vision for an Aboriginal art park on Hobart’s waterfront

The culture complex at Macquarie Point will include a history centre, fire and light installations, and a contemporary art gallery

Show of Syrian artists to inaugurate Rem Koolhaas’s first UAE building

Multi-purpose space, called Concrete, is at the heart of burgeoning Alserkal Avenue art district<br> <br>

Norman Foster to design Prado extension in historic palace

British architect's proposal beat those by Chipperfield and Koolhaas

President Hollande unable to inaugurate Louvre Abu Dhabi

Latest delay announced on eve of Abu Dhabi summit co-organised by France and the Emirate

Clark Art Institute reopens its ‘beating heart’, the Manton Research Center

The re-worked building includes the museum’s first gallery for works on paper

Germany to open culture house on Fifth Avenue

Former ambassador's home will host cultural and diplomatic events, exhibitions, symposia and artists’ residencies

Lacma reaches halfway point for $600m Zumthor building with another surprising gift

Self-made hardware store mogul Eric Smidt gives $25m to museum’s expansion campaign

Herzog & de Meuron wins competition to build Berlin’s Museum of the 20th Century

Winning design is compared to a station, an indoor riding school, a temple and a marquee

Musée Carnavalet closed until at least 2019 for €43m restoration

The museum of Paris’s history will send some of its collection abroad

See how Washington's National Gallery of Art has grown

Reopening this week, I.M. Pei’s East Building just got better—without getting any bigger

President Obama to ring in grand opening of Smithsonian's African-American museum

Tens of thousands expected at the weekend festival celebrating the newest addition on the National Mall, including performances by the Roots and Public Enemy, dance, spoken word and a southern BBQ

Swiss Institute finds new home on St Mark's Place

The New York arts space has also announced a batch of high-profile Helvetic trustees

Contemporary art returns to new-look Musée Maillol

Museum dedicated to the memory of French sculptor Aristide Maillol reopens with an exhibition of French artist Ben

Scottish government bets big on V&A franchise in Dundee

Costs double but funders keep faith with design museum

In pictures: Sir John Soane’s Museum unveils £7m restoration

Architect's former home now has more exhibition space and is integrated with adjacent buildings

New arts district to boost Johannesburg’s cultural credentials

As South Africa’s market gains momentum, investor mixes galleries, restaurants and destination shopping in his Keyes Art Mile development

An edifice worthy of the pharaohs rises next to the pyramids

The Grand Egyptian Museum aims to lure foreign visitors back to Cairo

Frank Gehry’s Luma project takes shape in Arles

Patron Maja Hoffmann is building a €100m cultural campus on vast site previously used to manufacture trains in southern France

Rupertinum revamp puts Salzburg on the contemporary art map

Franz West lounge and Generali Foundation collection among highlights of refurbished 17th-century site <br>

National Museum of Oman opens in Muscat

Institution to focus on the display and conservation of the sultanate’s cultural heritage from prehistory to the present

Bass museum to fill expanded space with shows by Ugo Rondinone, Mika Rottenberg and Pascale Marthine Tayou

The architects were tasked with the difficult job of increasing exhibition space without adding to the building

This is what the planned V&A East building in Olympicopolis will look like

Detailed images reveal the design for the new museum outpost in east London

Obama library architects chosen

Husband-and-wife team Tod Williams and Billie Tsien designed the Barnes Foundation’s new Philadelphia home and the former American Folk Art Museum in New York

George Lucas abandons plans to build a museum in Chicago after two-year legal battle

Star Wars creator is now looking to California for a space to house his art collection and memorabilia